Canopy

Canopy structures serve as fundamental design tools in architecture, providing shelter, defining spaces, and creating relationships between interior and exterior environments. Projects in this topic range from small-scale interventions to comprehensive design strategies that use canopies as primary organizational elements.The community explores canopies across diverse contexts: residential designs that fold canopies around courtyards and gardens, public structures like shelters and pavilions that use canopy forms for community spaces, and installations that redefine edges and thresholds in existing landscapes. Materials and approaches vary from bamboo and concrete to continuous structural systems that span entire buildings.